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...drive into this country in a dust storm from Balranald to Wentworth is like driving in a lost world. The dust-laden air plays eerie tricks with light. The sky appears leaden, like a snowy sky in Europe, or is crossed by great bands of black, red, and grey. Moist surfaces-such as sweat patches on a horse or the wet concrete of a swimming pool at an irrigation settlement-are a weird glowing purplish color. The sun is entirely obscured, or shows like a wan full moon. Dead trees, a tragic number, loom through the hot murk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Scorched Earth | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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